E16 | The Radio Maria Book Club – Good Country People and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor

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Caroline Busher and reviewers Anna Healy and Monica Riley take on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, a dark, Gothic novel about a teenage boy fighting the prophetic vocation thrust upon him. The panel weighs the book's unflinching violence, and its child abuse and arson, against O'Connor's own conviction that grace does not arrive gently. L'articolo E16 | The Radio Maria Book Club – Good Country People and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor proviene da Radio Maria.

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